NYTW Gala

New York Theatre Workshop’s ANNUAL GALA

On Monday, February 10th, 2025, the New York Theatre Workshop community will gather to honor Tony Award winners Joaquina Kalukango and Greg Nobile.

Gotham Hall – 1356 Broadway
6pm – Cocktails
7pm – Dinner, Performances & Live Auction

Full details about this one-night-only event, including our host, dinner chairs and the lineup of artists who will join us to honor these two incredible members of our community will be announced at a later date. For more information, please email PhoebeM@nytw.org

JOAQUINA KALUKANGO received the 2022 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for her extraordinary performance as Nelly O’Brien in Paradise Square. She also received a 2020 Tony Award nomination for her performance in the critically acclaimed Broadway production of Slave Play. For that production she also received an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, and Broadway.com listed her as one of the top five performers (male or female) of the year. Next up for Kalukango is executive producing and starring as the Queen of Disco, Gloria Gaynor in the Lifetime movie “I Will Survive: The Gloria Gaynor Story” reuniting her with producer Robin Roberts. Most recently, she recurred in Taylor Sheridan’s limited series “Lawman: Bass Reeves” starring David Oyelowo. Additionally, she recurred on the HBO series “Lovecraft Country.” Joaquina is a 2021 SAG Award nominee for Cast in a Motion Picture for her role as Betty X opposite Kingsley Ben-Adir in Regina King’s directorial debut, “One Night in Miami.”Other TV credits include Ava DuVernay’s series, “When They See Us,” and“Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia,” directed by Kenny Leon. Additional Broadway credits include: Into The Woods, The Color Purple, Holler If Ya Hear Me and Godspell.

GREG NOBILE is the co-founder and CEO of Seaview, a NY based Tony, Olivier, and Peabody Award-winning theater and film company. This Season: Stereophonic, Once Upon a Mattress, Romeo and Juliet, Hold On To Me Darling, All In: Comedy about Love, Good Night, and Good Luck, The Last Five Years, The Queen of Versailles, Reality (HBO), and Stress Positions (NEON). Past credits include Sam Gold’s An Enemy of The People starring Jeremy Strong, Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Illinoise, Lempicka directed by Rachel Chavkin, Michael Arden’s Tony Award-winning revival of Parade, Alex Edelman’s Emmy Award-winning Just For Us, Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign In Sidney Brustein’s Window, Mike Birbiglia’s The Old Man & The Pool, Selina Fillinger’s POTUS, Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play, Sea Wall / A Life starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge, and Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theatre. In addition to Seaview, Greg is the co-founder of The Friki Tiki, a singalong piano tiki bar located in Hell’s Kitchen. Greg is also a Crain’s New York “40 under 40,” one of the “10 Broadway Players to Watch” by Variety and is a proud college dropout. @thisisseaview // @gregnobile

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